**Here at Neighbourhood Buzz, we decided to give the blog post a personal spin today. As a start-up, we go through many interesting and challenging… well, challenges. Follow along as Steve talks about writing his latest sales pitch.**

Today I’m trying to hone down my sales pitch. I’m finding this task difficult to do mostly because no one likes selling and no one likes to be sold too. What I love doing is bringing our clients value so I’ll try and stick to that. We’re launching 2 new products and another is on the Horizon, so I’m having trouble really nailing the message for our materials.

A sales pitch so good a kitten gives you a high five? source: icanhazcheezburger.com

I’m furiously searching google for the ‘great pitch’ ‘best pitch’ this brings up pitches for investors. Relevant to me but not today. So I change my search to ‘best sales pitch’ and the first thing to come up is an article about how the best sales pitch is no pitch at all. Love the concept but this doesn’t help me in my particular task today.

Luckily I came across this video of Ari Gold from Entourage helping Eric with a sales pitch. A bit of humour always helps! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGyWTSq_Aw

Then I came across this beauty. http://www.amrmedia.com/selling/examples-of-effective-sales-pitch-simple-strategies-for-sales-pitches/

It gave me the structure I was looking for to build a great pitch. Tying together some essential elements like stating the problem and including a call to action.

This is going to be our pitch at WEBCON on May 10th at Pearson Airport Convention Centre. Well it’s the first iteration.

Feedback is appreciated! Let me know if I’m hitting the right notes.

Steve @ Neighbourhood Buzz

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